Jim Taylor

When I was nineteen, I told a thirty-year-old man what a
fool I had been when I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he said glancing down,
"a fool two years ago.”
― Donald Hall

Yellow

Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil as you make it. And, if you have lived a day, you have seen all: one day is equal and like to all other days.
-- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) "The father of modern skepticism"

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.
— Annie Dillard

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But in practice, there is.
— Yogi Berra

I don't know if this is what you mean, but I feel closest to God like when I'm rounding second base after I hit a triple.
— 9 year old boy, when interviewed about religion

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
— Pete Hamill

I’m with her!

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now? The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
-- Jodi Picoult

"Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" - Carmen Berra (Yogi's wife)
"Surprise me." - Yogi Berra

Your planet is doomed! This very moment, your best and brightest people are blearily scrolling through warm and fuzzy aphorisms, kitten videos, and pithy quotes on photos of stranded polar bears. We Martians could blow you away, but we're saving our ammo in favor of just watching SpaceX explosions.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure - having a life.
— John Irving (The World According to Garp)

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)

During 18 years, I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
~ Mickey Mantle, 1970

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver

All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
— Roger Waters

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government only when it deserves it.
-- Mark Twain

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. -- Sharon Olds

Happy 82nd Birthday to George Harrison.
All Things Must Pass, and George passed at age 58.

It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary, someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
― George Saunders

It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
-- Harry Caray

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Is anybody else a bit disappointed that the “deep state” appears to be just a bunch of normal people doing their jobs? I was kind of hoping for the Mission Impossible team or maybe the Slow Horses.

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In the beginning, I used to make one terrible play every game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
-- Lou Gehrig

If I am remembered by anyone, I would want it to be as a guy who cared about the planet and the welfare of his fellow man. And who would take you out at second base if the game was on the line.
- Bill (Spaceman) Lee